Ask HN: Did Google remove the site:<url> feature from mobile?

Posted by huevosabio on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @02:56PM
from the ask-hn dept.

I tried searching on my phone restricting results to reddit: "best wifi extenders site:reddit.com"

But it gave me the usual SEO rubbish. I tried on my laptop and it was working as expected. Then I tried to use developer tools to mimic mobile and there it was again, rubbish. You can see the screenshots here: https://imgur.com/a/p6qkWpi

What the hell is going on?

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Re:Ask HN: Did Google remove the site:<url> feature from mob... by djha-skin on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @03:16PM (#34616923)

I'm noticing this too. I don't know if it's just mobile, either.

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Re:Ask HN: Did Google remove the site:<url> feature from mob... by battles on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @04:37PM (#34618211)

If you disable javascript or cookies then you get the expected results. You could also just use duckduckgo for site: queries. Not sure what weird thing googles doing.

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